Outstanding programme faculty

The EDHEC PhD in Finance programme faculty is an exceptional team of international scholars who hold prestigious qualifications, distinctions and appointments. More importantly, faculty members have been making significant contributions to the field of financial economics, furthering theory and impacting practices through research, consulting, and executive education.

Programme faculty consists of world-class specialists in finance, asset management, and economic and financial modelling. It brings together EDHEC Business School’s senior economics and finance scholars and affiliate professors from top research institutions around the world.

Faculty has an outstanding track record of publications in and editing for the most respected journals in financial economics, a rich experience of research supervision and executive education, and a history of senior-level engagements with private and public sector organisations.

EDHEC PhD in Finance programme faculty

Core Faculty

Hamid Boustanifar, PhD (Stockholm School of Economics), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School

Laurent Calvet, PhD (Yale), Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School

Nicholas Polson, PhD (Nottingham), Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago

Marcel Rindisbacher, PhD (Montreal), Associate Professor of Finance, Boston University Questrom School of Business

Allan Timmermann, PhD (Cambridge), Professor of Finance and Economics, University of California, San Diego

Pietro Veronesi, PhD (Harvard), Professor of Finance, University of Chicago

Paolo Zaffaroni, PhD (London School of Ecnomics), Professor of Financial Econometrics, Imperial College Business School

Fernando Zapatero, PhD (Columbia), Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California

Faculty Biographies

A selection of international journals currently edited by programme faculty (2018)

Journal of Alternative Investments

Journal of Derivatives

Journal of Econometrics

Journal of Finance

Journal of Financial Economics

Journal of Financial Econometrics

Journal of Fixed Income

Journal of Portfolio Management

Journal of Retirement

Management Science

Mathematical Finance

Review of Financial Studies

The Econometrics Journal

Recent publications by programme faculty

Over the 2016-2018 period, programme faculty members have published over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals. The bulk of these have appeared in the most competitive and influential mainstream journals, but some articles have also been published by more specialised and practitioner-oriented scientific publications as well as by up-and-coming journals.

A selection of leading academic journals in which programme faculty has published over 2016-2018